The Tree of Man

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Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for companions, journeys to a remote scrubby patch of land that he has inherited in the Australian hills. When the land is cleared enough for a rudimentary house to be built, Stan brings his new wife, Amy, to the wilderness. Together they struggle to establish a home for themselves and their growing family. And together, but essentially apart, they face everything from the domestic upheavals of birth and death, to natural disasters. In this chronicle of simple lived in joy and sorrow, Patrick White creates an evocative monument to human endurance. - (Book jacket description).